Santos in Oaxaca's Ancient ChurchesA study of santos in 16th-century and other churches in Oaxaca, Mexico
By Claire and Richard Stracke Funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation In Santa María de la Natividad Zaachila: Christ
in a coffin |
Santa María de la
Natividad Zaachila |
The Villa de Zaachila was an important Zapotec
capital at the time of Spanish conquest. Today it has
about 14,000 people and is famous for its Thursday market
and for pre-Hispanic archeological sites. At the church,
our informant was a paid custodian who was not comfortable
speaking with us. We begin our tour with El Señor de la
Muerte. Photo by AlejandroLinaresGarcia. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. |